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UN: Food waste costing global economy $750bn a year
2013-09-11 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The global crisis in food waste is even graver than previously thought, according to a major new report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that blames avoidable food waste for 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and annual economic losses totalling $750bn. The new Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources report is described as the first major study to investigate the full range of environmental impacts that result from inefficient food production, distribution,...
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Food Waste Initiative Set up in Asia-Pacific
2013-08-29 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ASIA-PACIFIC - Denouncing the huge amount of food that goes to waste, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Hiroyuki Konuma, announced a new initiative aimed at stopping post-harvest food losses and market-to-consumer food waste.
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Global Food Waste Report Release and Portland Food Sustainability Panel
2013-08-15 17:47:45| PortlandOnline
June 5, 2013
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New Study on Cutting Food Loss and Waste to Benefit People and the Environment
2013-08-13 17:35:23| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 228kbCategory: Reducing Food Loss and Waste
Food Waste Offers Unforeseen Energy Benefits
2013-07-16 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Societies all over the planet are running out of holes in the ground in which to dump their waste, so they're under increasing pressure to find alternative solutions. In the European Union one of the problem wastes is food -- rich people buy too much in the supermarket and throw a lot away. This is a disaster for local authorities that have to find a way of disposing of it, and a problem for the planet because rotting food produces large quantities of methane, a global warming gas 23 times more...
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